Warwick District Council is being asked to officially recognise that the impact of a new Midlands airport proposed in the county would be so far-reaching no-one would escape unpalatable consequences.

Warwick District Council is being asked to officially recognise that the impact of a new Midlands airport proposed in the county would be so far-reaching no-one would escape unpalatable consequences.

Business leaders in Leamington have already attacked proposals to build an airport bigger than Heathrow on greenbelt land between Coventry and Rugby.

The town?s civic leaders are adding their voices to the snowballing opposition and say people in Leamington and surrounding villages should realise they would also suffer by being well within the flight path of aircraft using vast new runways stretching from Stretton-on-Dunsmore to Church Lawford.

Cllr Bertie MacKay (Ind, Stoneleigh) and Cllr John Hammon (Con, Cubbington) have each filed notices of motion to the Warwick council condemning the plans.

Cllr Hammon is worried that the surrounding villages of Eathorpe, Wappenbury, Weston-under-Wetherley, Cubbington and Bubbenhall would be directly in the flight path of the thousands of aircraft that would use the airport and that all the rural parts of the district would be ruined.

He said: ?We should urge the Government to quickly determine this is not a sensible site for an alternative Birmingham airport and to remove the blight and harm these ill-conceived plans are bringing.? Kenilworth town councillors have also spoken out against the new airport option.

And MEP Philip Bushill-Matthews, whose Harbury home could be right under the flight path to the new airport, called the scheme ?environmental vandalism on a massive scale?.

He has arranged a meeting with the EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom to enlist her support.